Metabolic dysregulation contributes to the progression of Alzheimer's disease

X Yan, Y Hu, B Wang, S Wang, X Zhang - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease. Numerous studies
have demonstrated a critical role for dysregulated glucose metabolism in its pathogenesis …

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of excitotoxic neuronal death

Y Wang, Z Qin - Apoptosis, 2010 - Springer
Glutamate receptor-mediated excitatory neurotransmission plays a key role in neural
development, differentiation and synaptic plasticity. However, excessive stimulation of …

A “mitochondrial cascade hypothesis” for sporadic Alzheimer's disease

RH Swerdlow, SM Khan - Medical hypotheses, 2004 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes etiologically heterogenous disorders characterized by
senile or presenile dementia, extracellular amyloid protein aggregations containing an …

β-amyloid peptides induce mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in astrocytes and death of neurons through activation of NADPH oxidase

AY Abramov, L Canevari, MR Duchen - Journal of Neuroscience, 2004 - Soc Neuroscience
β-Amyloid (βA) peptide is strongly implicated in the neurodegeneration underlying
Alzheimer's disease, but the mechanisms of neurotoxicity remain controversial. This study …

Adenosine A2A receptor blockade prevents synaptotoxicity and memory dysfunction caused by β-amyloid peptides via p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway

PM Canas, LO Porciúncula, GMA Cunha… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by memory impairment, neurochemically by
accumulation of β-amyloid peptide (namely Aβ1-42) and morphologically by an initial loss of …

Glucose metabolism and insulin receptor signal transduction in Alzheimer disease

S Hoyer - European journal of pharmacology, 2004 - Elsevier
Nosologically, Alzheimer disease is not a single disorder in spite of a common clinical
phenotype. Etiologically, two different types or even more exist.(1) In a minority of about 5 …

Mitochondrial alterations in Alzheimer's disease

SJ Baloyannis - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2006 - content.iospress.com
Morphological alterations of mitochondria may be related to metabolic and energy
deficiency in neurons in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders …

Brain aerobic glycolysis and resilience in Alzheimer disease

MS Goyal, T Blazey, NV Metcalf… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The distribution of brain aerobic glycolysis (AG) in normal young adults correlates spatially
with amyloid-beta (Aβ) deposition in individuals with symptomatic and preclinical Alzheimer …

Nicotinamide forestalls pathology and cognitive decline in Alzheimer mice: evidence for improved neuronal bioenergetics and autophagy procession

D Liu, M Pitta, H Jiang, JH Lee, G Zhang, X Chen… - Neurobiology of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Impaired brain energy metabolism and oxidative stress are implicated in cognitive decline
and the pathologic accumulations of amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) and hyperphosphorylated tau in …

A focus on the synapse for neuroprotection in Alzheimer disease and other dementias

P Coleman, H Federoff, R Kurlan - Neurology, 2004 - AAN Enterprises
Synaptic dysfunction and failure are processes that occur early in Alzheimer disease (AD)
and are important targets for protective treatments to slow AD progression and preserve …